Bard envisions the liberal arts institution as the hub of a network, rather than a single, self-contained campus. Numerous institutes for special study are available on and off campus, connecting Bard students to the greater community.

The Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College embodies the fundamental belief that education and civil society are inextricably linked. In an age of information overload, it is more important than ever that citizens be educated and trained to think critically and be actively engaged with issues affecting public life.

Celebrate Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson During The Big Read

Saturday, March 15, 2014 – Friday, May 2, 2014

Local CommunitiesThe Big Read takes place in Germantown, Kingston, Red Hook, Rhinecliff, and Tivoli, and will focus on Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson. Activities will take place from March 15 to May 2, 2014.

Events are planned throughout the Hudson Valley at businesses, libraries, schools, and homes with community events, performances, talks, and book groups. Book clubs are encouraged to participate.

The Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) managed by Arts Midwest, is designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment. Bard College is one of 77 nonprofit organizations to receive a grant to host a Big Read project this academic year.

The Evolution of California’s Rooftop Solar PV Market

Tuesday, April 1, 20144:45–6:15 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

Bard Center for Environmental Policy is pleased to host Timothy Treadwell '07, Director of Engineering, Research and Analysis at the California Center for Sustainable Energy (www.energycenter.org), for the 1st Annual Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series. Tim oversees research designed to support effective renewable energy, electric vehicle, and energy efficiency policies and programs in California.

Tim's talk will focus on California’s rooftop solar PV market, including the evolution of programs and policies designed to support adoption. He will touch on early programs going back to the late 1990’s, continue through the California Solar Initiative, and then discuss the current state of the market--including successes, failures, and challenges moving forward.

Tim is an example of the MS in environmental policy in action. He says, "the multidisciplinary, thematic curriculum offered at Bard CEP was invaluable in preparing me for this work. It provided me with the tools necessary to both understand and explain the technical and policy issues driving sustainable energy markets in California."Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.

Men's Volleyball Match - Senior Night

Tuesday, April 1, 20147 pm

Stevenson Athletic CenterIt's the last home match of the season for the men's volleyball team, and it's Senior Night for Billy Williams and Henry Kasiske. Come out and support the Raptors as they take on Sage.Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

Visiting Artist Lize Mogel

Wednesday, April 2, 201410:20 am – 12 pm

Fisher Studio Arts Building

Lize Mogel is an interdisciplinary artist who works with the interstices between art and cultural geography. She has created and disseminated counter-cartography maps and mappings that produce new understandings of social and political issues. Her work connects the real history and collective imaginary about specific places to larger narratives of global economies.

She has mapped public parks in Los Angeles; future territorial disputes in the Arctic; and wastewater economies in New York City. She is co-editor of the book/map collection "An Atlas of Radical Cartography," a project that significantly influenced the conversation and production around mapping and activism.

Exhibitions include the Sharjah (U.A.E.), Gwangju (South Korea) and Pittsburgh Biennials, "Greater New York" at PS1, and "Experimental Geography". She has lectured extensively about her work nationally and internationally, including at the 2013 Creative Time Summit. Lize has received grants from the Graham Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and the Danish Arts Council for her work.

Lize Mogel will be presenting her work to the studio arts 'Architectural Inventions', class in the Fisher Studio Arts Seminar Room.

Noble Savages and English Gardeners: Kulturkritik from Rousseau to Goethe A Faculty Seminar Presented by Franz Kempf

Wednesday, April 2, 20147 pm

Olin, Room 102

One of the grand designs of the Enlightenment is the transition from the French Garden to the English Garden. With its inherent “culture-nature” juxtaposition, the transition is closely linked to Kulturkritik. Redefining the binary opposition as a “both … and” relationship, Kulturkritik has emerged in recent scholarship as the discursive and self-critical mode of reflection of the Enlightenment. As such, it provides the theoretical framework for my exploration of the English Garden as a utopia and dystopia. Since the English Garden – and its philosophical, political, anthropological, and aesthetic derivatives – figures prominently in Rousseau, Schiller, and Goethe, my argument draws on their works, chief among them the two Discourses, the Reveries, the New Eloise, the Elective Affinities, Faust's monologues and the last scene of the second part of Faust. (The Goethe discussion will reference the Baroque era painter Claude Lorrain but no visuals will be used.)

Please join us for a reception at 6:30 p.m. in the Olin Atrium prior to the event.

Thursday, April 3, 201412 pm

A Cultural History of Data Visualization; or, The Long Arc of Visual Display

Thursday, April 3, 20145 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumA lecture by Lauren Klein, Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology

We live in what's been called the "golden age" of data visualization, and yet, the graphical display of quantitative information has a long history, one that dates to the Enlightenment and arguably before. This talk will explore the origins and applications (both historical and contemporary) of data visualization techniques, locating the emergence of the visualizing impulse in eighteenth-century ideas about data, evidence, and observation. By illuminating these ideas at work in examples past and present, I will show how we can begin to identify the arguments—political as much as aesthetic—that underlie all instances of visual display. In so doing, I will also demonstrate how the digital humanities, through the incorporation of ideas from the fields of media studies, information visualization, and the history of science, might be expanded to consider how data might be conceptualized, visualized, and deployed in order to advance humanistic critique.Sponsored by: Computer Science Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Experimental Humanities Program; Science, Technology, and Society Program.

Introduced by Michael Ives

Thursday, April 3, 20146 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College CampusBrenda Coultas's most recent collection, The Tatters, has just been published by Wesleyan University Press. Her other books include The Marvelous Bones of Time, A Handmade Museum, and Early Films. She teaches at Touro College and has served on the faculty of Naropa University's Summer Writing Program. She lives in New York City and in Woodstock.

Ann Lauterbach's ninth book of poems, Under the Sign, was published in fall 2013 by Penguin. An earlier volume, And for Example, will appear this spring in a Spanish translation, and her journal, Saint Petersburg Notebook, will come out in the fall from Omnidawn. She is the David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature and co-chair of Writing in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard.

Pomona College and Bard College Presidents Convene for Online Conversation on “The Future of Liberal Arts”

Thursday, April 3, 20146:30–7 pm

OnlineBard College President Leon Botstein and Pomona College President David Oxtoby will discuss “The Future of Liberal Arts” in a live and interactive global conversation on Google+ Hangout on Thursday, April 3, from 6:30 to 7 p.m. EST. Presidents Botstein and Oxtoby and will address the impacts of technology and globalization on higher education and dispel some of the myths about career opportunities for liberal arts students. Participants may submit questions in advance or during the conversation by joining the Google+ Hangout or via email. Use the hashtag #futureofliberalarts on Google+ and Twitter to join the conversation.

The Institute of Advanced Theology Lenten Lecture Series - "Christianity in Today's World"

Friday, April 4, 201412:30–1:30 pm

St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, The Institute of Advanced Theology will be hosting the Spring 2014 Lenten Luncheon Lecture Series, "Christianity in Today''s World," led by Bruce Chilton.

The dates of the lectures are: Fridays, March 14, 21, 28, April 4, and April 11, 2014.

In five lectures, The Rev. Dr. Bruce Chilton will trace evolution from the Enlightenment until the period know as post-modern.

The lectures will be held at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, located at 1114 River Road, Barrytown, NY.

The presentation begins at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period. Lunch is at noon and will consist of soup, bread, dessert, and beverage at a cost of $6.00.

If you have any questions, please call 845-758-7279.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.

Degree Recital: Xuanbo Dong, oboe

with Eri Nakamura, piano

Friday, April 4, 20148 pm

Men's Tennis Match

Saturday, April 5, 20142 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer ComplexThe Bard College men's tennis team plays its first match in the spring portion of the season when John Jay College of Criminal Justice visits. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

Michael Cunningham Reading

Monday, April 7, 20144–5:30 pm

Olin AuditoriumThe Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series presents a free public reading by novelist Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours. Introduced by Bradford Morrow; followed by a Q&A and book signing. No tickets or reservations are required.For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail mmorriss@bard.edu.

Rebecca Mead Reading

A Reading and Discussion of Her Book My Life In Middlemarch

Monday, April 7, 20144:45–5:45 pm

RKC 103"A stylish meditation," My Life In Middlemarch, is "a personal reflection on Eliot's masterpiece and the meanings it's had for Rebecca Mead, a British journalist living in New York City. . . . Mead is determined to make the novel that Virginia Woolf famously described as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" accessible again, to a culture whose definition of maturity has altered over the 150 years since Middlemarch was published. Eliot subtitled her book "A Study of Provincial Life", and its interest in ordinary lives is paralleled by Mead's interest in ordinary readers, the novel's wide perspective that, Mead contends, "makes Middlemarchers of us all". —The Guardian

Rebecca Mead was educated at Oxford and NYU, and is a staff writer at the New Yorker. She is the author of My Life in Middlemarch (Crown, 2014). She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.Sponsored by: Italian Studies Program; Literature Program.

Religion Colloquium Series: "Hürrem Sultan: The Slave Who Became Queen of the Ottomans"

Monday, April 7, 20145 pm

Hegeman 204

Leslie PeirceSilver Professor of History,New York University

What is it like to write a biography of someone about whom there is not much concrete evidence but an abundance of innuendo and blame? Known to Europe as Roxelana, “the Russian woman”, she was the slave concubine of Suleyman I (“the Magnificent”), who freed her and made her his wife, breaking multiple precedents to do so. Known as Hurrem among the Ottomans, she was blamed for Suleyman’s most controversial acts, while at the same time she was a great patron of charitable foundations built across the empire. This presentation will discuss some of the challenges and the pleasures of writing for a non-academic audience.

An Evening with Uhadi and a Celebration of Africana Studies at Bard

Monday, April 7, 20147–8:30 pm

Blum Hall

Uhadi features six of Johannesburg's greatest jazz artists into an ensemble that celebrates the 20th anniversary of Democracy in South Africa. Drawing from a mix of classic South African styles as kwela, ghoema, and mbaqanga, Uhadi performs a mixture of classic South African repertoire and exciting new original works that showcase and celebrate the music and art of South Africa today.

Cancer, Bacteria, and Yeast, Oh My!

A lecture by Rachel Roe-Dale, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Skidmore College

Tuesday, April 8, 20144:45 pm

Hegeman 204

Several experimental and clinical studies have documented that the order in which chemotherapy drugs are administered affects the outcome of cancer treatment. I present a brief discussion of a simple mathematical mechanism to explain this order dependence in conjunction with more detailed models which investigate the specific relationship between drug order and treatment response in breast cancer chemotherapy and gastric cancer chemotherapy. In all cases, I simulate treatment by bolus injection and employ a pulsing condition to indicate cell kill. I then extend this type of treatment model to my current investigation which considers the dynamics of bacteria and yeast populations. I model these populations as competitive species and simulate antibiotic treatment to investigate how this treatment alters the behavior and dynamics of the populations perhaps leading to an infectious state.

Time and Space Died Yesterday!

An Introduction to the Feverish Sleeplessness of Italian Futurist Art, Literature, Life, 1909-1944

Tuesday, April 8, 20145:30 pm

Preston Theater

Did the Futurists get the future right?

In 1909, the Futurists declared, "Time and Space died yesterday. We are already living in the absolute, since we have already created eternal, omnipresent speed." More than a 100 years later, is it true, as Valentine de Saint-Point wrote about the Futurist woman, "Women are Furies, Amazons, Semiramis, Joans of Arc, Cleopatras, and Messalinas: combative women who fight more ferociously than males"? Were they right we they demanded, "Let's abolish pasta!"

On the occasion of the impressive exhibition "Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe" at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Judith Meighan will present an illustrated introduction to startling ideas, art, music, writings, fashion, and cuisine promoted by the always provocative Italian Futurists.

Professor Judith Meighan teaches art history of the last 200 years at Syracuse

University and has spent way too much time, and found some sleeplessness, researching and studying the Italian Futurist movement.Sponsored by: Italian Studies Program.

A Panel Discussion on Faith and Politics

Wednesday, April 9, 20146 pm

Please join us for a panel on Faith and Politics as seen through the lens of Marilynne Robinson's writing. Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, penned Housekeeping, the book chosen for the Bard Big Read.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

23rd Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 – Thursday, April 10, 20149–5 pm

National Press Club, Washington D.C.Hosted by the Levy Economics Institute with support from the Ford Foundation. Pre-registration is requested. Information will be posted at www.levyinstitute.org as it becomes available. Or call 845-758-7700.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute.

23rd Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 – Thursday, April 10, 20149–5 pm

National Press Club, Washington D.C.Hosted by the Levy Economics Institute with support from the Ford Foundation. Pre-registration is requested. Information will be posted at www.levyinstitute.org as it becomes available. Or call 845-758-7700.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute.

Thursday, April 10, 201412 pm

A Rightful Share: Beyond Gift and Market in the Politics of Distribution

James FergusonProfessor of Anthropology, Stanford University

Thursday, April 10, 20144:45 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

This paper develops an argument that new kinds of welfare states in the global South are opening up possibilities for new sorts of politics. Against an analysis of the limitations of traditional ideas of nationalization in Africa, it seeks to show that new forms of social assistance are allowing the question of national ownership of wealth to be reimagined in new ways -- ways that may allow the idea of a ”rightful share” to take on a quite different significance than it does in traditional discussions of nationalization of natural resources. Taking recent campaigns for a “Basic Income Grant” (BIG) in South Africa and Namibia as a window onto these new political possibilities, it argues that a new politics of distribution is emerging, in which citizenship-based claims to a share of national wealth are beginning to be recognizable as an alternative to both the paradigm of the market (where goods are received in exchange for labor) and that of “the gift” (where social transfers to those excluded from wage labor have been conceived as aid, charity, or assistance). Beyond the binary of market and gift, the idea of “a rightful share”, it is suggested, opens possibilities for radical political claims that could go far beyond the limited, technocratic aim of ameliorating poverty that dominates existing cash transfer programs.

James Ferguson is the Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. His research has focused on southern Africa (especially Lesotho, Zambia, South Africa, and Namibia), and has engaged a broad range of theoretical and ethnographic issues. His works include The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development,' Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho; Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt; and Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order.

POSTPONED - Bard - The Myth of Mental Wellness

Thursday, April 10, 20147 pm

Olin HallMark Vonnegut, the son of literary legend Kurt Vonnegut, reads from his new memoir, entitled Just Like Someone without Mental Illness Only More So. He shares his story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with bipolar disorder, finding his calling, and learning that willpower isn’t nearly enough. His talk will include speaking about growing up with his famous father and living fully with a mental illness. Sponsored by Wellness, Health and Counseling, Active Minds, and Student Activities.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail alegendr@bard.edu.

“Netsuke comes at the summit of Rikki Ducornet’s passionate, caring, and accomplished career. Its readers will pick up pages of painful beauty and calamitous memory, and their focus will be like a burning glass; its examination of a ruinous sexual life is as delicate and sharp as a surgeon’s knife.” —WILLIAM GASSSponsored by: Written Arts Program.

The Institute of Advanced Theology Lenten Lecture Series - "Christianity in Today's World"

Friday, April 11, 201412:30–1:30 pm

St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, The Institute of Advanced Theology will be hosting the Spring 2014 Lenten Luncheon Lecture Series, "Christianity in Today''s World," led by Bruce Chilton.

The dates of the lectures are: Fridays, March 14, 21, 28, April 4, and April 11, 2014.

In five lectures, The Rev. Dr. Bruce Chilton will trace evolution from the Enlightenment until the period know as post-modern.

The lectures will be held at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, located at 1114 River Road, Barrytown, NY.

The presentation begins at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period. Lunch is at noon and will consist of soup, bread, dessert, and beverage at a cost of $6.00.

If you have any questions, please call 845-758-7279.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.

A Poetry Reading by Lynn Behrendt '81 & Lucas Baumgart '14

The first of a new series of readings featuring past and future Bard alums

Friday, April 11, 20146–7 pm

Anne Cox Chambers Alumni/ae CenterPlease join us Friday, April 11, at 6pm, in the Alumni/ae Center next to Two Boots, for a celebration of Bard poetry. Lynne Behrendt, class of 1981 (and now the research and data coordinator for Development and Alumni/ae Affairs and the Office of Institutional Support), and graduating senior Lucas Baumgart will read from their work. All are welcome!Sponsored by: Written Arts Program and the Office for Alumni/ae Affairs.

Bard College Open House for Accepted Students

Saturday, April 12, 20149 am – 4 pm

Many locations on campusCheck-in begins at 9 a.m. The day includes tours; panel discussions on academic and co-curricular life; a Q&A session with President Leon Botstein; and numerous opportunities to meet with students, faculty, and staff.For more information, call 845-758-7472, e-mail admission@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/admission/accepted/.

Deviance Credits

Sunday, April 13, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Sunday, April 13, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Sunday, April 13, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Deviance Credits Opening Reception

Sunday, April 13, 20141–4 pm

CCS BardThe Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) presents thirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes Opening Reception

Sunday, April 13, 20141–4 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtWorks from the Marieluise Hessel Collection co-curated by the class of 2015 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Staying Safe on the Internet

A lecture by Morgon Kanter, '09

Monday, April 14, 20144:45 pm

RKC 111

The internet can be a dangerous place. Beneath the friendly facade of online shopping and captioned cat pictures lie a large number of bad actors who want to take over your computers and steal your money. Come find out how they do it, why they do it, and how Google is stopping them.

Premodern Technopolitics? Empire and Infrastructure in the Inka Cloud Forest

Tuesday, April 15, 20144:45 pm

Olin, Room 202

Infrastructure has recently emerged as core site for innovative research in anthropology, and within the social sciences in general. Much of this work has sought to analyze infrastructures from a technopolitical perspective, whereby there is no a priori distinction to be made between technological artifacts and political projects, with both seen as being inscribed in the other from the very beginning. This talk considers the interpretive possibilities that arise when a technopolitical account is given of pre-modern infrastructure, drawing on the archaeological case of Inka highways in the pre-colonial Andes. It also considers the pitfalls in seeking to translate such analytical frames across modern and non-modern worlds, arguing that in the end, a technopolitical approach must always rely on modernist categories to some degree, even as it seeks to critique them.

Darryl Wilkinson is an archaeological anthropologist whose research addresses the themes of materiality, power and indigenous ontologies in the ancient Andes. He received his PhD from Columbia in 2013, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Cultural Analysis and a member of the 'Objects and Environments' research seminar at Rutgers University. His research has been published in the journals World Archaeology and the Cambridge Archaeological Journal.

Kingston - Teen Fiction Workshop

Tuesday, April 15, 20145–7 pm

Kingston Public Library

Celia Bland will lead teens, grade 7 and up, in a free writing workshop. Do you have an idea for a young adult novel or are you just curious about the genre? Participants will use excerpts from Marilynne Robinson’s novel, Housekeeping, as a springboard into their own writing around character, landscape, and plot. Please come to the workshop with a notebook and a pen or pencil.

Celia Bland is the author of fourteen young adult and children's books, and Soft Box, a collection of poetry. Her poetry, fiction and essays have recently appeared in Witness, The Narrative Review (where her poem "Wasps" was named one of the year’s best), Drunken Boat, and Green Mountains Review and The Cortland Review. Madonna Comix, her collaboration with visual artist Dianne Kornberg, will be published in 2014. She is the International Coordinator for Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking. For more information, call 845-758-7878, or e-mail bhollenb@bard.edu.

Economics Seminar: "Euro or Drachma?" Austerity in the Eurozone and the Future of Greece?

By Nicos Christodoulakis, Minister for Economy and Finance of Greece, 2001–2004

Wednesday, April 16, 20144:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumABOUT THE AUTHOR

From 1996 to 2004 Nicos Christodoulakis was successively the Deputy Minister of Finance, the Minister for Industry and Energy and the Minister for the Economy and Finance in Greece. Nicos participated to meetings at the World Bank, at the IMF and of the G7. In 2002-2003 he was chair of the Euro Group and Econ Fin, which are composed of all finance ministers of the Eurozone / member States of the European Union. From 1999 to 2007 he was elected as a member of the Greek Parliament with the PASOK party.

Nicos is currently Professor of Economic Analysis at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and a Research Associate at LSE, Hellenic Observatory.

During his long and distinguished academic career and public service, Nicos has published several books and articles on economic policy and economic crises. His most recent books include: “Euro OR Drachma”, “Can the Titanic be saved? From Memorandum, back to Growth” (2011) and “Economic Theories and Crises: The cycle of Rationality and Folly” (2012).

This talk is part of the ongoing Economics seminar series, which is dedicated to furthering the exchange of economic ideas in the greater Bard community.Sponsored by: Economics Program; Levy Economics Institute.

Politics, Bureaucracy, and Work

A Panel Discussion with Jennifer Hudson and Christoph Bartmann

Wednesday, April 16, 20146:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumChristoph Bartmann is the author of "Life in the the Office" ("Leben im Buro") and is the Executive Director of the Goethe-Institut New York and North America.

Jennifer Hudson is a Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center and teaches in the BPI Program. She holds a PhD in political science (political theory) from Columbia University and has taught at Columbia College, Barnard College, Long Island University, the Columbia Summer High School Program, and Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

Bard Baroque Ensemble

Musical Offerings from the Courts of Elizabeth I and Frederick the Great

Wednesday, April 16, 20147:30 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingBard College’s own student baroque-music ensemble offers an eclectic two-part program featuring excerpts from J.S. Bach’s monumental collection, The Musical Offering (BWV1079). The performance pairs this complex contrapuntal suite, based on a “Royal Theme” given by Prussia’s Frederick the Great in 1747, with elegant and occasionally odd instrumental vignettes by Johann’s son, C.P.E. Bach, the Prussian Court composer whose 300th birthday occurred last month. The first half of the program presents English contrapuntal compositions from a previous royal court, that of Elizabeth I, where the madrigals of Thomas Morley, John Wilbye, and John Dowland ruled the age.

Dedicated to the rediscovery and performance of great historical works, BBE vocalists, string players, and wind soloists offer up something to please any musical taste.Sponsored by: Music Program.

Deviance Credits

Thursday, April 17, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Thursday, April 17, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Thursday, April 17, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Mathematical Puzzles that Stretch Your Intuition

A lecture by Peter Winkler, Dartmouth College

Thursday, April 17, 20144:45 pm

Hegeman 308Humans are not born with perfect mathematical intuition, to say the least, yet most decisions we make are based on "feel," not calculation. Today you will hear some mind-boggling puzzles (some with solutions, some without) that are designed to help you adjust your intuition when it's about to run off the rails. This talk is aimed at college students (and at anyone who likes to have their mind boggled!). Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.

Our Last, Best Hope For a Future on Earth: Alan Weisman on Population Growth

Thursday, April 17, 20147 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumInvestigative and award-winning journalist Alan Weisman, author of the bestselling The World Without Us, will join us for a lecture on overpopulation and his latest book Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope For a Future on Earth, which covers balancing population growth with the health of our planet. To investigate this problem, Weisman travels around the world to understand and describe population issues as well as explore possible solutions. He looks at how different cultures and religions might adopt new behaviors in order to better manage the earth's population and our species ultimate survival.

Open to the public.

Alan Weisman is the author of several books, including The World Without Us: an international best-seller translated in 34 languages, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the Wenjin Book Prize of the National Library of China. His work has been selected for many anthologies, including Best American Science Writing. An award-winning journalist, his reports have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Discover, Vanity Fair, Wilson Quarterly, Mother Jones, and Orion, and on NPR. A former contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine, he is a senior radio producer for Homelands Productions. He lives in western Massachusetts.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.

Deviance Credits

Friday, April 18, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Friday, April 18, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Friday, April 18, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Joanna Kotze it happened it had happened it is happening it will happen

Friday, April 18, 20147:30 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right

April 18 performance followed by a discussion with the artists

“A mind capable of transforming a familiar space into something eerie and unrecognizable.”—New York Times

With energetic movement and genuine humanity, three dynamic dancers explore, express, and question their individual identity and their relationship to one another. Unexpected and rigorous, Kotze’s work shows the power of dance to provoke and delight.

Guest Artist Michael J. Schumacher

Friday, April 18, 20146 pm

Edith C. Blum InstitutePresenting a guest lecture on his sound and installation works at 3:30 PM in the Ottaway Theatre, followed by a 6.1 surround laptop performance in Blum N211 at 6:00 PM. Both events are free and open to the public.

Deviance Credits

Saturday, April 19, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Saturday, April 19, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Saturday, April 19, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Joanna Kotze it happened it had happened it is happening it will happen

Saturday, April 19, 20147:30 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right

April 18 performance followed by a discussion with the artists

“A mind capable of transforming a familiar space into something eerie and unrecognizable.”—New York Times

With energetic movement and genuine humanity, three dynamic dancers explore, express, and question their individual identity and their relationship to one another. Unexpected and rigorous, Kotze’s work shows the power of dance to provoke and delight.

Joanna Kotze it happened it had happened it is happening it will happen

Saturday, April 19, 20142 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right

April 18 performance followed by a discussion with the artists

“A mind capable of transforming a familiar space into something eerie and unrecognizable.”—New York Times

With energetic movement and genuine humanity, three dynamic dancers explore, express, and question their individual identity and their relationship to one another. Unexpected and rigorous, Kotze’s work shows the power of dance to provoke and delight.

Women's Tennis Match

Saturday, April 19, 201410 am

Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis CourtsIt's Senior Day as the women's tennis team plays its last home match of the 2013-14 season against William Smith College. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

Deviance Credits

Sunday, April 20, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Sunday, April 20, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Sunday, April 20, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

The Visitor Talks: Tirdad Zolghadr - Office Hours

Monday, April 21, 20143–5 pm

CCS Bard Seminar Room 1It seems that an increasing number of curators draw on curatorial discourse when they wish to cover their backs. When assessing their practice more thoroughly, they resort to historical comparisons or theoretical positions beyond art. This is unfortunate, but hardly surprising. Curatorial discourse is widely assumed to be vague enough to minimize any measure of accountability. And yet, to claim this discourse is vague is misleading. It is, rather, a specific operation that sparks a particular theoretical persona in the reader; one that will identify with the curatorial voice, however ambivalently. This lecture will address the above operation, and what it might represent to curators who remain invested in curatorial education. It will also discuss whether the stakes do change when the context is one of acute political tension. Case studies include the CCS Bard Speaker Series 2010-13, Zolghadr’s very own (rather patchy) track record, and others more.

Tirdad Zolghadr is a writer and a curator. The working title of his third novel is Headbanger.

This talk is given as part of the lecture series The Visitor Talks : Pre-ambulation and Retrospection. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies; Center for Curatorial Studies.

TONIGHT! - Is It Sweet? Tales of an African Superstar in New York

Monday, April 21, 20144 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema

This film is an intimate and irreverent portrait of Ghanaian hip-hop superstar Reggie Ossei Rockstone’s tour of New York. It is an experimental documentary blending footage recorded by the film’s main characters. In West Africa, Rockstone pioneered Twi language rap and hosts reality TV shows. But he is anonymous when he comes to perform for Africans in America. He reunites with both his African American producer DJ Rab Bakari and manager Dhoruba Bin Wahad, a former Black Panther Party leader, who have returned to New York after living in Ghana. As they plan Reggie’s tour, they meet aspiring artists, joke, argue about politics and race, shoot music videos, perform, and hustle.

Director Jesse Weaver Shipley is a filmmaker and ethnographer who has shot documentaries, short fiction, and music videos in New York, London, Accra, Ghana, and Johannesburg, South Africa including the feature documentary Living the Hiplife and the multi-channel video installation Black Star. He is author of the book Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music.Sponsored by: Music Program.

Denouement: Speculating Upon the "Endeles Knot" of Sir Gawain

Arthur Bahr, Associate Professor of Literature, MIT

Monday, April 21, 20145–6 pm

Olin, Room 102

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the hero’s chivalric virtue is initially symbolized by the pentangle that he bears on his shield, which the poet calls an “endless knot” because of its geometric perfection and absolute unseverability. At the end of the poem, however, Sir Gawain has associated himself instead with a feminized girdle, or sash, that is more malleable in shape and whose erotic potential was premised upon the potential of untying. “Untying” is also a literal translation of the literary concept of “denouement,” namely the concluding portion of a complex narrative. In this talk, Bahr will look closely at how the poem’s literal knots relate to its literary denouement, as well as at images from the manuscript in which the poem is contained and a related poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, in order to argue for a more expansive understanding of speculation as a form of “close looking” allied with the “close reading” that literary scholars traditionally perform—and as such a more intellectually rigorous activity than the idle guesswork or mere supposition with which speculation is usually associated today.

Arthur Bahr is Associate Professor of Literature at MIT, where he specializes in Old and Middle English literature; the structure and interpretation of medieval books; formalism(s); aesthetics; and the idea of the literary. His first book, Fragments and Assemblages: Forming Compilations of Medieval London, has recently been published by University of Chicago Press. Using compilations from fourteenth-century London as case studies, Fragments and Assemblages argues that we can productively bring comparable interpretive strategies to bear on the formal characteristics of both physical manuscripts and literary works. By situating itself at the intersection of material history and aesthetic theory, this form of manuscript studies offers insights both on the literary culture of the past and on how the past continues to mean in the present.

Irish Theater Critic and Scholar Fintan O’Toole Presents "Don't mention the war: the suppression of Irish cultural memory of the Great War"

2014 Eugene Meyer Lecture

Monday, April 21, 20146–8 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

Fintan O’Toole, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals, is the Leonard L. Milberg '53 Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton for spring 2014.

Eugene Meyer (1875-1959), for whom the annual lecture and the Eugene Meyer Chair in British History and Literature are named, was the owner and publisher of the Washington Post, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and first president of the World Bank. Previous Eugene Meyer speakers include Sir David Cannadine, Andrew Roberts and Colm Tóibín.

In this year's Eugene Meyer Lecture, Mr. O’Toole will talk about three Irish works of art that responded in important ways to the First World War and how each of them was suppressed or censored.

Monday, April 21, 20148 pm

Gina Salá ..."is a kirtan singer who captures the sweet silky essence of traditional Indian singing with a tenderness that draws the listener into the heart of devotion." —Yoga Journal MagazineSponsored by: Religion Program; The Warren Hutcheson Fund.

Film Screening: Brave Miss World

This film follows the story of Miss Isreal, Linor Arbargil, and her journey to speak out and take action against sexual violence.

Tuesday, April 22, 20147–10 pm

Campus Center, Weis CinemaMiss Isreal Linor Arbargil was abducted, stabbed and raped in Milan, Italy at age 18. She had to represent her country in the Miss World competition only six weeks later. When to her shock she was crowned the winner, she vowed to do something about rape. The film follows her from the rape, to her crowning and through her crusade to fight for justice and break the silence.

Janine Buxton, LMHC, who is a clinical supervisor at Marist with a private practice and also a first responder to crisis calls through a local agency, will be introducing the film and offering a Q&A session after the film. Sponsored by: Office of Title IX Coordination and BRAVE.

Deviance Credits

Thursday, April 24, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Thursday, April 24, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Thursday, April 24, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Thursday, April 24, 201412 pm

No Child... written by Nilaja Sun

Performance by Bard College students in the Solo Performance course.

Thursday, April 24, 20144 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtPlease join us for a performative reading of selections from No Child..., a play written by Nilaja Sun and performed by students enrolled in Sun's Solo Performance course at Bard. The performance is part of The Third Idiom, a thesis exhibition at The Center for Curatorial Studies curated by graduate student Lindsey Berfond.

No Child… considers the experience of an idealistic teaching artist as she leads a class of Bronx 10th graders to produce a theatrical performance. The critical play exposes the inner workings of an educational system in perpetual crisis — the play’s title refers to the controversial Bush administration policy No Child Left Behind Act — and traces the role of art and artists working in a struggling, “arts-deprived” urban public school.

The Third Idiom initiates an experimental dialogue between systems of formal schooling and education as a form or subject of art production. Positioning critical pedagogy as a theoretical starting point, the project opens up the space of the contemporary art institution as a flexible site for co-investigating the ideological models and circumstances of education. To examine the politics, conditions, and policies of alternative and mainstream educational systems, the project features gallery interventions by Camel Collective, the TEACHABLE FILE, and Wendy Tronrud. Installations in the galleries are further activated by a series of programs, which include performances, conversations, and collaborations with artists, theorists, local public school teachers and students.

Recital: Bridget Bertoldi, flute

with pianst Hyanghyun Lee

Thursday, April 24, 20144:30 pm

Mirrored-Environments: Yayoi Kusama in Context, 1965–1969

A Lecture by Midori Yamamura

Thursday, April 24, 20146 pm

Olin, Room 102Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) is one of Japan's best-known artists. During her 2013 David Zwiner exhibition, enthusiastic viewers lined up for hours to experience her immersive mirror-lined environments. Of the postwar Japanese artists, Kusama has been a popular subject. However, due to her autobiographical narrative of mental illness, which she began dictating in 1975, and her voluntary residence in a mental health facility since 1977, her work has been predominantly interpreted as a symptomatic of her illness.

Instead of relying on her autobiography, this talk will give a fresh look at Kusama through an object-based historiography, examining the initial development of Kusama's mirrored-environments between 1965 and 1969, against the backdrop of her milieu that I carefully reconstruct from new archival research to discuss how she established her anti-conformist art against late capitalist society.Sponsored by: Art History Program; Asian Studies Program; Japanese Studies.

Deviance Credits

Friday, April 25, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Friday, April 25, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Friday, April 25, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Featuring members of the American Symphony Orchestra, Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, Longy Conservatory Orchestra and the Longy Chorale, Bard College Chamber Singers, and Bard Festival Chorale.Sponsored by: American Symphony Orchestra; Bard College Conservatory of Music; Fisher Center.

Women's Lacrosse Game

Friday, April 25, 20144 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer ComplexThe Bard women's lacrosse team hosts powerful Rochester Institute of Technology in a Liberty League game. Come out and cheer for the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

Deviance Credits

Saturday, April 26, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Saturday, April 26, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Saturday, April 26, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Featuring members of the American Symphony Orchestra, Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, Longy Conservatory Orchestra and the Longy Chorale, Bard College Chamber Singers, and Bard Festival Chorale.Sponsored by: American Symphony Orchestra; Bard College Conservatory of Music; Fisher Center.

Baseball Doubleheader

Saturday, April 26, 20141 pm

Dutchess Stadium, Fishkill, N.Y.The Bard College baseball team plays a pair of games against Liberty League rival Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

Women's Lacrosse Game

Saturday, April 26, 20142 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer ComplexIt's Senior Day, as the Bard women's lacrosse team hosts University of Rochester in the last game of the season. Come out and cheer as the seniors play their last collegiate contest.Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

Degree Recital: Angela Aida Carducci, soprano

with Eri Nakamura, piano

Saturday, April 26, 20143 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSoprano Angela Aida Carducci is currently pursuing her M.M. at Bard College Conservatory of Music’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program under the direction of Dawn Upshaw. A native of Buffalo, New York, Angela Aida completed her undergraduate education at the State University of New York at Geneseo. She performs frequently as a soloist, most recently appearing in Autum Songfest at Bard and Carissimi’s Jephte and Baltazar. This past summer, Angela Aida participated in Urbino Musica Antica in Urbino, Italy, where she studied madrigals, Roman oratorio, and baroque singing under maestro Alessandro Quarta and baritone Furio Zanasi. Angela Aida along with three colleagues from Bard, premiered Casey Hale’s “True Lover’s Knot” at New York City’s Morgan Library and the Longy School of Music in Boston. She has recently appeared as the Witch in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel with the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society and in a collaborative recital in the Saugerties Pro Musica concert series.

Men's Lacrosse Game

Saturday, April 26, 20147 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer ComplexThe men's lacrosse team hosts College of Mount St. Vincent. Come out and support the Raptors in their last game of the year!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

"New Restorations and Discoveries from Center for Visual Music" - a Film Program

Film by John Cage and Richard Lippold, The Sun Film (1956)

Saturday, April 26, 20147 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterFrom absolute film to psychedelia, this program of revelatory moments from the history of visual music and kinetic art explores lost, legendary and rare treasures from the archives of Center for Visual Music (CVM). Featuring the east coast premiere of the newly discovered film by John Cage and Richard Lippold, The Sun Film (1956), about the kinetic art sculpture. Rare works by Jordan Belson include his infamous LSD (1962); a presentation reel from the legendary San Francisco Vortex Concerts (1959) and Quartet (1983). Early films by Oskar Fischinger, an influence on Cage, Belson and many others, include 35mm prints of Spirals, Ornament Sound and Studie nr 5. Made in Upstate New York, Turn, Turn, Turn (1966) by Jud Yalkut is ‘a kinetic alchemy of the light and electronic works of Nicolas Schöffer, Julio Le Parc, USCO, and Nam June Paik, with sound by USCO.'

The program, featuring many newly preserved 16mm and 35mm prints, will be introduced by curator/archivist Cindy Keefer of CVM. Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, will introduce The Sun Film by Cage and Lippold.

Free admission, no reservations required.

Co-sponsored by the John Cage Trust at Bard College and The Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Deviance Credits

Sunday, April 27, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Sunday, April 27, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Sunday, April 27, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Degree Recital: Vincent Festa, tenor

with Szilvia Mikó, piano

Sunday, April 27, 20143 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingTenor Vincent Festa is a second year student in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard Conservatory. He received his B.M. from The Juilliard School where he was seen as Flute in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and as a tenor soloist in a pastiche of early works by Monteverdi and Purcell. Vincent spent two summers at The Chautauqua Institute where he performed the roles of Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro and Giles Corey in The Crucible. A native New Yorker, Vincent currently studies with Lorraine Nubar.

Degree Recital: Sara LeMesh, mezzo-soprano

Bálint Zsoldos, piano

Sunday, April 27, 20147 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingA native of the San Francisco Bay Area, mezzo-soprano Sara LeMesh holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Vocal Performance from Rice University where she studied with opera singer Susanne Mentzer. She is currently enrolled in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard College under the direction of soprano Dawn Upshaw. A frequent concert soloist praised for her "plush mezzo-soprano" (The New York Times), recent performances include Stravinsky’s Pulcinella at the Music Academy of the West under the baton of Matthias Pintscher, Bach’s St. John Passion conducted by Leon Botstein at Bard College’s Fisher Center, and Mozart’s Requiem performed at Rice University. This spring, LeMesh will premiere the role of Anna in Shawn Jaeger’s opera, Payne Hollow, at the Bard College Conservatory of Music. The Californian mezzo recently covered Second Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Music Academy of the West and performed Third Spirit in the same opera at the Aspen Music Festival.For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu.

Georgian Vocal Ensemble Spring Concert

Sunday, April 27, 20147–8:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College CampusGeorgia is a small country just south of Russia in the Caucasus Mountains. Join us for an evening of traditional vocal music sung in three part harmony.For more information, call 419-708-6193, or e-mail bz6141@bard.edu.

Workshop : Civil Society and New Patronage

Monday, April 28, 201411 am – 3 pm

Reem-Kayden Center, Room 103This workshop introduces The Nouveaux Commanditaires Program and its commitment to commissioning artworks and artistic research that respond directly to issues of public interest and are sited and contextualized within the terms of civil society. Since the early 1990s, the Fondation de France’s “New Patrons” project has invited citizens to propose and develop works with artists and mediators that negotiate and address a range of local concerns. Building ties between artists, commissioners, and communities in diverse international settings, this workshop will introduce the role of “médiateur” within The Nouveaux Commanditaires context and consider its significance to the larger curatorial and commissioning field via specific projects and artistic practices.Focused on the aesthetic and ethical terrain explored by three specific artistic practices, the morning session will include dialogs with artists Sven Augustijnen and Camille Henrot, while the afternoon discussion looks closer at the unique opportunities and challenges afforded by new models and approaches to patronage. Engaging a dialog with Nouveaux Commanditaires representatives Xavier Douroux, Thérèse Legierse, and Jérôme Poggi, afternoon session will address how art can negotiate the shifting terms of civil society via new models of commissioning. This workshop is open to CCS Bard faculty and students, as well as the larger Bard College community and public. Workshop led by CCS Bard faculty member Fionn Meade. CCS Bard graduate student Jocelyn Edens and community organizer Nancy Barton will participate as respondents in both the morning and afternoon sessions.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Alien Therapy: Nordic Larp in a Contemporary Art Context

Johanna Koljonen & Bjarke Pedersen

Monday, April 28, 20145 pm

Preston 110Nordic Larp is a progressive variant of live role-playing practice that originated in the Nordic countries but today influences game design and performance across the globe. Nordic larpers build detailed, alternative worlds and simulate fictional societies in a wide range of genres, often for multi-day spans of time, with a high level of narrative, aesthetic and political ambition. Nordic larps have authors, but they are a fundamentally co-creative art form, whose performance strategies and production methodologies are generating enormous interest within the contemporary art community.

Larp theorist and critic Johanna Koljonen will give an introduction to the form through brief case studies of larps set in New York in the early years of the AIDS crisis, on a spaceship in the Battlestar Galactica universe, and in Hamlet's Elsinore.

In the second part of the talk, game designer Bjarke Pedersen will speak of his ongoing collaboration with American artist Brody Condon, who has worked with Nordic Larp designers since 2008. He will show documentation and footage from works employing larp elements.Sponsored by: Art History Program; Bard Theater and Performance Program; Experimental Humanities Program.

Avery Fisher Career Grant Winner and Bard College Conservatory of Music faculty member Benjamin Hochman made his highly acclaimed New York recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which was soon followed by engagements with the New York Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall.

Mr. Hochman has performed as soloist with the Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Jerusalem Symphony Orchestras, the Prague and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, Istanbul State Symphony, and National Arts Centre Orchestra in Canada. As a recitalist, he has appeared at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Louvre, l'Auditori de Barcelona, the Tel Aviv Museum, New York's Weill Recital Hall, the Gardner Museum in Boston, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. International festivals include Lucerne, Spoleto, Klavierfestival Ruhr, Prussia Cove, Marlboro, Ravinia, Gilmore and Santa Fe.

Mr. Hochman is on the piano faculty of the Conservatory of Bard College and the Longy School of Music. He studied in Israel with Esther Narkiss and Emanuel Krasovsky, and later graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and Mannes College of Music, where his principal teachers were Claude Frank and Richard Goode. His studies were supported by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Homage to Schubert is Mr. Hochman's second solo recital recording -- his debut recording of works by Bach, Berg and Webern was released by Artek in 2009.

Photographers in Dialogue: A Conversation with Greg Marinovich and Gilles Peress Moderated by Tom Keenan

Wednesday, April 30, 20145 pm

Fisher Studio Arts Seminar RoomGreg Marinovich was a member of the famed south African photography collective known as the "Bang-Bang Club," and received a Pulitzer Prize for his working documenting the end of apartheid in South Africa and the nation’s transition to democracy. Gilles Peress is a photographer who documented conflicts from Bosnia to Rwanda, and his works have been exhibited and published widely across the globe. Tom Keenan, the director of Bard’s Human Rights Project, will moderate a discussion about these photographers' careers and experiences and their views about the changing political circumstances in which these photographers find themselves and their images operating today.Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Human Rights Project.

Print Industrialism, Cultural Authority, and the Making of the Modern Chinese Intellectual- A Faculty Seminar Presented by Robert Culp

Wednesday, April 30, 20147 pm

Olin, Room 102

The end of the civil service examination system in 1905 and the imperial order in 1911 generated a crisis for China’s Confucian literati. The close partnership, formed over centuries, between the imperial state and the literati was collapsing, even as China’s moral and cultural orders were challenged by the influx of new systems of knowledge from the West. This talk explores how China’s literate elite during the first half of the twentieth century found gainful employment in the rapidly expanding, industrialized publishing sector and used it to preserve their social status, transform Chinese culture, and re-establish their cultural authority and influence in a period of transition.

Three groups of literate elites dominated work in the editorial departments of the major Chinese presses (Commercial Press, Zhonghua Book Company, and World Books): late Qing literati during the 1900s and 1910s; the first generation of foreign-trained academics in the 1920s; and the first generations of Chinese college and high school graduates from the 1920s onward. Each group transformed the dynamics of cultural production in editorial departments, which by the 1930s operated on principles of division of labor and flow production that mirrored the industrial labor process more generally. Through creative engagement in the publishing process, these three kinds of editors and compilers were able to influence the trajectory of cultural change in early twentieth-century China while helping to define what it meant to be a Chinese intellectual. At the same time, all three groups had to adjust, in various ways, to the demands of market-oriented cultural production.

Please join us at 6:30pm for a reception prior to the event in the Olin Atrium.